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Undertaking a journey into the "hybrid governance" of urban food movements, this book offers an original and nuanced analysis of the urban milieu as epicentre of food activism and food governance. Through examples of food movements in the city-regions of Toronto and Brussels, the author highlights the critical governance tensions urban food initiatives experience as they develop in diverse ways and seek to change food systems and their related socio-political conditions. The author investigates urban food movements as they negotiate access to land in urban areas, build resilient food network organisations, and develop supportive policies and empowering institutions for urban food governance. Through the analysis of these tensions, the book effectively puts real-life challenges of urban food movements in the spotlight-challenges that are increasingly visible and pertinent in today's converging climate, socio-political, and health crises. The author offers suggestions to improve alternative food practices and, ultimately, to design promising pathways to instigate food system change. .

Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- landbouw --- Food supply --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Abastament d'aliments --- Política urbana --- Política social --- Ontario --- Brussel·les (Bèlgica)

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Food supply --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins

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This dissertation focuses on the governance of alternative food networks (AFNs). The aim is to identify, conceptualize and empirically investigate the critical governance tensions conditioning the genesis and the life-course of alternative food initiatives. To this purpose this dissertation develops a Hybrid Governance Approach (HGA) which identifies three types of governance tensions - i.e. organizational, resource and institutional - and analyses the interrelations among them in different case-studies of local food initiatives in the Brussels-Capital Region. An international case study - Toronto - is investigated to learn from similarities and differences in the ways local food networks experience and address governance tensions in the two city-regions' food policy trajectories.The empirical findings of this dissertation help to unravel the contradictions and dilemmas that AFNs face in their dynamic reproduction. The need to cope with their own spatial-material growth, to secure necessary material-operational resources - among which arable land to feed (alternative) food systems - as well as the necessity to deal with often contradictory multi-level socio-institutional environments are among the key factors of governance tension in AFNs. The analysis is also attentive to the outcomes of the governance tensions in the life-course of local food initiatives and thus to the promising organizational strategies, self-reflexive and co-learning dynamics put into place by AFNs to cope with the experienced tensions or to channel them into sustainable directions.

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The term rural represents most of Ethiopia. In a mild generalization of the current situation, rural livelihoods represent the majority of the population. This large part of Ethiopia still upholds historical and cultural assets as the societal identity. Moreover, a large share of the national economy and potential is still based in the rural. In the past decades, the nation is however taking up the influences of globalization. As a reflection of the global trend of urbanization, the small percentage of urbanized areas in Ethiopia is getting saturated by rural to urban migrants. The deprivation in the rural has increased to the point of driving the young generations out, to look for a better quality of life. Therefore, the need for reinventing or transforming the rural is becoming a critical step. This raises questions of how to reform the rural towards urbanization. This study focuses on a particular rural settlement transformation model, called NESTown. The model employs technological and social strategies to direct self-sufficient rural to urban transformation. The first prototype of the model is currently under implementation in an area called Bura, Amhara region and the model is planned to be replicated throughout the Amhara region as a rural settlement typology. This study investigates how the NESTown model catalyzes rural to urban transformation while focusing on social change. The social innovation framework is used to explore and investigate the transformation process. This thesis is a theoretical discussion as much as it is empirical investigation of the case, because of the idea of upscaling the model as a settlement typology in Amhara region and the limited physical implementation of the prototype. Theories of social innovation and community-based development are used to frame and identify potentials as well as limitations of the model in its future development. Thus, the intention of this study is to foresee the possible limitations and opportunities of the model before it is implemented on a regional scale. It is also a way to identify the social pillars and attributes of the rural context with opportunities for transformation.